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...Dresden heard the first Rosenkavalier, the first Egyptian Helen, the first Arabella, Strauss's latest opera (TIME, July 10). It was a right and fitting act of gratitude, therefore, for Dresden to stage a seven-day festival last week in honor of the greatest living composer's 70th birthday...
Retired. Dr. Shailer Mathews, for 25 years dean of Chicago University's Divinity School, on his 70th birthday. Professor at the Divinity School since 1894, he calls creeds and doctrines so much "fussiness." He will go to the Orient to preach...
...telephone and telegraph operators on Enchanted Hill will be just as rushed on the Chief's 70th birthday as any other day. For the man who has given freer play to every whim and ambition than any American of his time holds no dav pure holiday. And he has said: "The time to retire is when God retires you and not before...
Other aristocratic records were ready to fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...
...Europe "just having a good time." Last week she was in much the same position as an unemployed stage star. Science seemed to have forgotten her, save as a name. The University of Chicago believed she was living in Brooklyn. Investigation found her at No. 41 West 70th St., Manhattan, busily writing her book on invertebrates...